morella

morella [LL < μώριος] , (bot.) nightshade (Solanum nigrum); b (~a major) deadly nightshade, great morel (Atropa belladonna). c (~a minor) black nightshade, petty morel. contrahit a Mauro nomen maurella Neckam DS VII 271; aqua solatri vel ~e valet plus in apostemate interiori Gad. 5v. 1; 12‥ ~a, i. morele, i. atterloþe WW; nenuf, ~a, endivia etc. Gilb. I 26. 2; ~a sive maurella, solatrum, uva lupina, strignum idem sunt. ~e species quedam dicitur solatrum mortale, cujus flos est niger et fructus rubeus. est et aliud solatrum ventaticum SB 30; ~a, solatrum, houndesberies MS BL Sloane 3217 f. 52; hec ~a, A. morelle WW.  b hundesberie, venenum habet et vocatur ~a major MS BL Add. 15236 f. 179v; ~a major, A. grete moral or dwale MS BL Add. 27582 f. 51va; ~a major, respice in ‥ solatrum Alph. 119.  c recipe ‥ jusquiami, barbe Jovis, ~e minoris que portat nigros fructus ‥ Pop. Med. 234; morel, attirloveberie, et vocatur ~a minor MS BL Add. 15236 f. 179v; ~a minor, cujus flos al[bus] et est bonum MS BL Sloane. 2479 f. 99v.